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MechEngDropout
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 Posted: 03/30/06 - 16:07 Post subject: State of the Garden Address
The peppers are doing great - they're growing taller and look very healthy. The tomatoes are hanging on for dear life. The cucumbers have succumbed to the call of death. Good thing I didn't like cucumbers anyway.
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j1miller
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 16:10 Post subject:
that was fast.
didn't you plant them last week?
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 16:16 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | that was fast.
didn't you plant them last week? |
Yeah. 
I don't know what happened to them. The only thing I can think of is that cucumbers are more susceptible to cold than the others and they got hit hard by the last cold snap with temps in the mid 30's for 3 nights.
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 16:50 Post subject:
I wish I had the patience to plant a garden.
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airehead
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 16:52 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | I wish I had the patience to plant a garden. |
I might have the patience to plant one. The patience to keep one alive is a whole 'nuther matter.
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 18:09 Post subject:
I thought this was about politics.  
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TriBob
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 18:18 Post subject:
You have a limp cucumber. 
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msparks
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 18:43 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | they got hit hard by the last cold snap with temps in the mid 30's for 3 nights. |
With the temps in the mid-30's, there wasn't any frost, right? Still and all, quite a bit too cold for the likes of the cukes and tomatoes. If there's danger of more cold like that, cover the tomatoes overnight.
If the cold continues, plant peas, cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower...they all do quite well with colder temps. Then again, if you don't like 'em, keep your fingers crossed.
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Kimba90
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 19:09 Post subject:
I agree with msparks, the cukes don't like the cold. Maybe a bit cold for the tomatoes too.
My garden news: I started the seeds for: callaloo (also called amaranth in the US) cilantro, dandelion ( yes I am growing dandelions for my salad) & broccoli-raab.
I have my Red Savina Haberno seeds to start this weekend. Also more onions, chives, basil, red callaloo, basil, lettuce, zucchini and whatever other seeds are left.
I bought a bunch of plants some pepper,some tomato from Burpee, so they will show up soon. I've proved myself in being able to start most items from seed, so I don't bother with if I can buy as plants already.
I am anticipating sowing seeds for cilantro at several week interval, so we can have cilantro all season long. I have found you either like or hate cilantro: we're def in the 'love cilantro' category.
I also have garlic sprouting outside, and I have asparagus in its own bed into the third season. There's nothing better than home-grown, home harvested asparagus 30 minutes post harvest!!
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 19:18 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | | There's nothing better than home-grown, home harvested asparagus 30 minutes post harvest!! |
Although I like asparagus, I'm going to have to go with that just-off-the-vine tomato. I've had fresh asparagus and I've had asparagus from the produce market - Jungle Jim's. The fresh was much better than the stuff in the store. But maybe I don't eat enough asparagus to appreciate the difference. However, when it comes to the tomato from the store or the one, just off of the vine, the difference - to me, at least - is much greater than that of the asparagus.
Now I'm hungry...for both.
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Kimba90
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 19:27 Post subject:
| msparks wrote: | | Kimba90 wrote: | | There's nothing better than home-grown, home harvested asparagus 30 minutes post harvest!! |
Although I like asparagus, I'm going to have to go with that just-off-the-vine tomato. I've had fresh asparagus and I've had asparagus from the produce market - Jungle Jim's. The fresh was much better than the stuff in the store. But maybe I don't eat enough asparagus to appreciate the difference. However, when it comes to the tomato from the store or the one, just off of the vine, the difference - to me, at least - is much greater than that of the asparagus.
Now I'm hungry...for both. |
Hmm. If I had to line up both, that's hard to say. There's simply no comparison from store bought tomatos to garden grown, even if the local garden grown are 1 month earlier, from Marietta, and your own tomatoes are mere baby plants at this time... 
I think with the asparagus sometimes it is a matter of toughness. If I don't check the bed, sometime the asparagus is 2 feet tall and inedible!
I would eat my own tomatoes right off the vine if I hadn't seen my dogs taking a whiz on said vines....  But that whizzing helps keep the deer away from my garden!!
I am planning on growing some spaghetti squash this year and less yellow squash. We had so many yellow squash and zucchini last year, I was using a wheelbarrow to pick it, and supplying our local Amish neighbors with the surplus. ( And they reciprocated with fresh relish and fresh pork sausage.)
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 20:20 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | I would eat my own tomatoes right off the vine if I hadn't seen my dogs taking a whiz on said vines.... But that whizzing helps keep the deer away from my garden!!
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Can't wait to try your garden fresh salad dressed in dog urine.
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msparks
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Posted: 03/30/06 - 20:22 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | Kimba90 wrote: | I would eat my own tomatoes right off the vine if I hadn't seen my dogs taking a whiz on said vines.... But that whizzing helps keep the deer away from my garden!!
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Can't wait to try your garden fresh salad dressed in dog urine. |
Don't knock it until you've tried it!
The salad, not the "dressing."
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Posted: 03/31/06 - 06:14 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | I wish I had the patience to plant a garden. |
I might have the patience to plant one. The patience to keep one alive is a whole 'nuther matter. |
Its a family thing that we do not plant plants, we "bury" them in the garden.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 03/31/06 - 09:09 Post subject:
You eat dandelions? I think the the salad "dressing" is more appetizing.
Good luck on the garden(s).
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